Re: Windows key suddenly dies (FC4)

From: Dotan Cohen (dotancohen_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/27/05

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    On 7/27/05, Øyvind Stegard <oyvinst@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've been having a problem lately where my left Windows key suddenly
    > dies on me and stops generating keyboard events. This is extremely
    > annoying as I use it as a modifier for many shortcuts to apps, desktop
    > switching and window management. It seems to happen randomly, and I have
    > to totally power off/on my laptop to get it working again. Sometimes,
    > though, it randomly starts working again. I see no patterns, nor any
    > offending X apps. Tried killing wm [Metacity], does not help. The
    > problem is perhaps all the way into the kernel, since the 'showkey'
    > command shows no generated events when I press it (same when X isn't
    > running). Nothing about unknown keys in dmesg, either. xev shows
    > nothing. This has never happened with Linux on this laptop before, and
    > I've been using Fedora on it since FC2. The key in itself is certainly
    > not broken, physically.
    >
    > Some (hopefully) relevant info:
    > * I'm using Norwegian keyboard layout (no) on a Compaq Presario laptop.
    > * Using Gnome
    > * kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
    > * xorg-x11-6.8.2-37
    > * gcc-4.0.1-3.fc4
    >
    > The latest "big" system update was gcc (and thus libgcc, libstdc++,
    > ...), and I cannot recall it happening before this. I'd greatly
    > appreciate if anyone knew something about this or could point me into
    > bugzilla (have searched, but too many "Zarro Boogs found" gets old
    > really quickly >8[ ).
    >
    > Øyvind.
    > --
    > < Øyvind Stegard < oyvinst at ifi uio no >
    > < http://www.oyvind.nu/
    > < `Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.'
    >

    Do you mean that key at the bottom of the keyboard with the outline of
    the penguin?

    Dotan
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